The TI-86 is a programmable

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introduced in 1996 which was produced by

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. The TI-86 uses the

Zilog Z80 The Zilog Z80 is an 8-bit computing, 8-bit microprocessor designed by Zilog that played an important role in the evolution of early personal computing. Launched in 1976, it was designed to be Backward compatibility, software-compatible with the ...

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. It is partially

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with its predecessor, the

TI-85 The TI-85 is a graphing calculator made by Texas Instruments based on the Zilog Z80 microprocessor. Designed in 1992 as TI's second graphing calculator (the first was the TI-81), it was replaced by the TI-86, which has also been discontinued. ...

. In addition to having a larger screen than the TI-83, the TI-86 also allows the user to type in

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and Greek letters and features five softkeys, which improve menu navigation and can be programmed by the user for quick access to common operations such as

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-to-

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conversion. The calculator also handles

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and

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better than the TI-83. One drawback, however, is that the statistics package on the TI-83 range doesn't come preloaded on the TI-86. However, it can be downloaded from the

program archive and installed on the calculator using the link cable. The TI-86 has been discontinued.

Specifications

*CPU:

6 MHz *

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: 128 KB, 96 KB user-accessible *

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: 256 KB non-upgradable *Display: 128×64 pixels high-contrast monochrome

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*Data Communication: Serial link port; allows two TI-86 calculators to be connected to each other, or one TI-86 to be connected to a PC, for data transfer via a special link cable *Programming Languages:

TI-BASIC TI-BASIC is the official name of a BASIC-like language built into Texas Instruments' graphing calculators. TI-BASIC is a language family of three different and incompatible versions, released on different products: * TI-BASIC 83 (on Z80 proces ...

, Z80 Assembly language (ASM) *

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: 4×

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, 1× CR1616 or CR1620 (for backup power)

References

External links

Official Texas Instruments TI-86 page (Internet Archive)ticalc.org
hosts a large collection of downloadable freeware programs for the TI-86 can be found at along wit
CalcG.org
- Very organized and large archive of games and programs.
The Guide
- the largest set of tutorials for TI-86 assembly programming * tp://ftp.ti.com/pub/graph-ti/calc-apps/86/asm/ti-apps/ Texas Instruments Program Archivebr>archived

Complete Disassembly of a TI-86
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Specifications

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References

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